Confessions of a Japanese Linguist - How to Master Japanese by Shane JonesEnglish | July 11th, 2014 | ASIN: B00LQ9ORR6, ISBN: 0989549038 | 184 pages | AZW3/EPUB/MOBI | 1.55 MBFollow the author on his odyssey from a 24-year-old Midwesterner unable to speak a word of Japanese as he recounts his initial struggle to survive even Japanese 101, to cramming four years of college Japanese into one year with top grades, to gaining functional fluency, conquering kanji, and finally gaining sufficient mastery over the language to develop marketable Japanese skills as a Japanese teacher and translator, all within four short years.

Rennyo and the Roots of Modern Japanese Buddhism by Mark BlumEnglish | 1 Dec. 2005 | ISBN: 0195132750 | 324 Pages | PDF | 3 MBThis book, which collects ten unpublished essays by both Japanese and non-Japanese scholars, will be the first to confront many of the major questions surrounding the phenomenal growth of Honganji under Rennyo's leadership, such as the source of his charisma,